Quality of life comparison
If you lived in Tennessee instead of Georgia, you would:
Economy
be 71.9% less likely to be unemployed
In Georgia, 12.1% of the labor force is unemployed as of 2025. In Tennessee, that number is 3.4% as of 2025.
make 6.2 times more money
Georgia has a GDP per capita of $9,692 as of 2025, while in Tennessee, the GDP per capita is $60,177 as of 2024.
be 37.2% more likely to live below the poverty line
In Georgia, 9.4% live below the poverty line as of 2024. In Tennessee, however, that number is 12.9% as of 2023.
Sources: World Bank (2024–2025), Bureau of Labor Statistics (2025), US Census Bureau (American Community Survey) (2023), Bureau of Economic Analysis (2024). How we calculate this
